good and evil on Evil

In a poignant tribute written after his son’s passing in a climbing accident, Nicholas Wolterstorff reflects: When we have overcome absence with phone calls, winglessness with airplanes, summer he...

Ancient lens What’s the historical context? Wisdom Song It is not too far a stretch to imagine an eager young person sitting at the feet of a well-seasoned elder and receiving the words of thi...

A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil, that good may come of it.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

God would never permit evil, if He could not bring good out of evil.

The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.

In this stirring and thoughtful argument, N.T. Wright illustrates the complexity of evil by telling the story of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and his return to his home country of Russia after many years in...

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality, but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.